Google Elections
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 6:53PM Saturday evening while searching for South Carolina primary results I rediscovered Google Elections, and have bookmarked it for future use as the election draws closer. While I’m sure I used this site during the 2008 election, I apparently didn’t bookmark it and promptly forgot about it after the election.;)
The results page at Google Elections
The home page is where you can read current political and election news. The screen shot on the right is from their Results page showing how each county in South Carolina voted and the totals. This page updated regularly that evening. There is also a page that shows search trends, YouTube video views and how the candidates name is trending in news articles and blogs. There is also a news page for each candidate and for many current issues. I’ll frequently use this site as the year progresses.
Reader Comments (4)
Wow, thanks for the info. Great site.
It's a little weird that they have only a U.S. edition and an . . . Egypt edition?? Almost 200 countries in the world and we cover the U.S. and . . . Egypt? I mean, Google is a U.S. company, so for it to cover U.S. politics? Not that odd. But how did they pick Egypt for their One Other Country?
My guess is that they did the U.S. edition and then expanded to Egypt because of the recent unrest and elections. The citizens were using technology to bring down the old government and so Google thought they could help. That is my somewhat educated guess.
Yes, I do realize the ground has been shifting in Egypt. But . . . regime protests in Syria (and the government trying to fly under the radar of international observers)? An American citizen awaiting the death penalty in Iran? Nuclear scientists falling like dominoes there? Russia on the verge of losing its democracy? The Muslims and Christians uniting (!) in NIgeria? The English embassy being stormed and looted in Iran? The widespread lawlessness of the drug war in Mexico? Yes, the ground has been shifting in Egypt, but it's shifting a number of other places, too.
Again, I'm just guessing, but Iran and Syria aren't going to be having elections anytime soon. Russia's elections are probably beyond hope and Google had an employee, Wael Ghonim, arrested last year in Egypt for agitating for reform. Perhaps they felt Egypt was a place they could make a deference. Could be.